Staffcop vs. Insider Leaks: Stay Secure Amid Increasing Global Cyber Risks

The beginning of 2025 marked a spike in incidents where foreign employees were remotely hired by major companies using fake documents and CVs. On average, the employee stayed on for about four to five months and, during that time, successfully infiltrated the company’s systems and downloaded a large database with critical business information. After being dismissed, the individual began blackmailing the employer, demanding a six-figure ransom in cryptocurrency to keep the data confidential.

This case is one of many — part of a growing pattern where professional IT operatives gain employment under false identities to steal internal data and use it for blackmail. Since early 2025, these schemes have increasingly targeted multinational firms, including Fortune 500 companies.

International fraudsters are not interested in stable salaries. They aim for larger sums that can be obtained quickly by stealing internal data, taking advantage of a company’s weak internal security, and resorting to blackmail.

Often, fraudsters use intermediary teams in the targeted country which receive company laptops from local employers and then operate "laptop farms" from their homes using remote management software.

To help companies stay ahead of such risks, we offer Staffcop — an advanced platform for employee activity monitoring and data protection. Staffcop includes powerful modules such as:

• Live desktop monitoring
• Tracking downloads, traffic, and alerts on excessive data transfers
• Blocking downloads and uploads to external storage
• Screen, webcam, and audio recording
• Keyboard and messenger tracking
• Remote computer control
• Logging and metadata recording

Some time ago one of our customers faced a situation when an employee, before dismissal, decided to copy a significant volume of important and sensitive documents into a separate folder. Then, a few days before their dismissal, he archived this folder to take it outside the corporate perimeter. In this situation, a special filter was created to detect archiver activity and monitor this action.

This filter was configured to track increased archiver activity on employees' work computers. It included monitoring the launch of archiving programs and the creation and editing of archive files. The filter helped identify anomalies related to unauthorized data copying and prevented a serious data leak.

Don’t wait until it’s too late. Secure your company today by requesting a free 15-day trial and see how our solution works in real time!